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2.3 Foundations of Distributed Systems
Aim:
How do we send messages between computers across a network?
Physical Concepts:
Bandwidth, Latency
Packet Concepts:
Data, Headers
Routing Concepts:
Shared Media, Switches and Routing Tables, Routing Protocols
For more detailed notes, see Vladimiro Sassone's
Multimedia Communications Systems
notes in
http://www.informatics.sussex.ac.uk/courses/mct/
.
Subsections
2.3.1 Physical Concepts
2.3.2 Packets
2.3.3 Conclusion: Network Properties
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Ian Wakeman 2005-02-22